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- From: bic@piglet.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Bruce Cohen)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Query: Is it worth buying a Barlow?
- Message-ID: <bic.714250337@piglet.mmwb.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 18:52:17 GMT
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- Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
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- This discussion started on eyepieces, but I would like to focus (no pun)
- on Barlows.
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- >>the 32mm Plossl, since it is limited by the 1.25" eyepiece barrel. The 32mm
- >>Plossl has greater magnification for the same field, and plenty of eye relief.
- >A good combination would be the 32mm, the 17mm and the 10.5mm. I really don't
- >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >I don't understand why the 17 would be any better than the
- >32mm and a barlow. whould the barlow decress the field of view a great
- >deal compared to this combination?
- >
- >>find much use for a Barlow, I have the TeleVue 1.8x, and its pretty good as
- >>Barlows go, but I never use it. Once you use the TeleVue Plossls, you probably
- >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >I am not an astronamer, don't even have a scope and hope to change that
- >this week... but the book I'm reading says that the barlow will effectively
- >double the focal length of the scope, thus increasing the eye relief
- >for any given eyepiece. If one buys the barlow, the eye relief is better
- >on the 17mm combination, you can use the 10.5 as a 6.5, and have better
- >relief than with true 6mm. so I wonder why you never use your barlow?
- >
- >You would effectively get 4 eyepiece combinations of power for the
- >price of 2 eyepieces.
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- Any opinions?
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